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Unable to secure a suitable North American label deal, Toronto’s Drunkula have turned to Europe, where they respect the rock, particularly the aggressively 70s metalloid variety that comes loaded with unrestrained guitar/bass riffing and a heavy, pounding groove delivered with snarling punk attitude.
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The Ian Blurton-produced All New Moves, released by the French Bad Reputation label, actually contains a lot of familiar moves you’ve likely heard on recordings by Budgie, Atomic Rooster, Motörhead, the Damned, Black Oak Arkansas, the New York Dolls, Iron Maiden, the Users, Thin Lizzy, Sir Lord Baltimore and others that Nick Sewell and his buds have sonically ingested during their misspent youth.
Only they’ve manage to synthesize all the parts into something uniquely monstrous, and with Blurton’s red-line-pushing studio assistance have whumped it out fast-‘n’-dangerous-style with a badass boogie all their own.
Drunkula tear up the Horseshoe with DOA tonight (Thursday, November 13).
